guest: i think john boehner is plenty tough. i do not think you get to be speaker of the house by being a wallflower. he can make the tough decisions. he has made the tough decisions. when he needs to be confrontational, he can be. i think the bigger issue for what is going on in the house is the lack of ability of the leadership to exert power. i take us back to campaign- finance reform, mccain-feingold, when they destroyed the power of the political parties. then at the house took away the to do earmarks. this is not a john boehner issue. this is the ability of the leadership to exert discipline. if you're going to have a speaker of the house and a house majority that has to work its will, and the way to be successful is by exerting discipline, you need to give the leadership those tools. they do not have them from a fund-raising or earmarked standpoint. host: based on that point, let me share with you the point from dana milbank on darrell issa's scandals -- guest: i think darrell issa has been very aggressive. host: too aggr